Although Sun Li has a fierce spirit of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, he is definitely not a fool who lacks brains, and when he saw that another force rushed out of Gongsun Yue's camp to reinforce, he immediately ordered a retreat, and no longer continued to fight with the enemy's left soldiers and horses.

Although the five hundred elite cavalry is fierce in combat, it is impossible to kill twenty times the enemy, and the purpose of Sun Li leading the army to attack the camp tonight is not to kill more, but to disturb and fatigue the enemy.

Sun Li quickly withdrew to the north with his troops, and Zou Dan, who had driven out of the camp for reinforcements, did not pursue when he saw this, but just gathered up the soldiers and horses on the left and quickly brought them back to the camp.

After some counting, Gongsun Yue found that the left lieutenant had died, and immediately scolded angrily: "Shameless thief army! During the day, he shot the lieutenant in the front of our army by the method of sneak attack, and at night he killed the lieutenant in the left part of our army by the method of sneak attack. ”

Zou Dan reminded Gongsun Yue and said: "General, I feel that there is something strange here, and the defenders in Yangxiang City are only afraid of more than a thousand!" ”

Gongsun Yue asked rhetorically: "So far, can we still let Yangxiang go?" No matter whether there are 2,000 or 3,000 soldiers and horses hidden in Yangxiang City, they are all blocked on our way to the west, if we don't pull out this thorn, how can we capture Zhuojun! ”

Zou Dan couldn't convince Gongsun Yue, so he had to say: "Since Yang Township must be captured, in a battle tomorrow, the general will mobilize a large army to besiege the city on all sides, and launch a fierce attack at the same time, without giving the defenders any respite!" ”

Gongsun Yue said in a deep voice: "It is exactly what I want!" I don't believe that a small Yangxiang city can still stop the pace of our army's attack! Spread the order of our army, after the city is broken tomorrow, slaughter the defenders in the city to comfort the dead and wounded brothers! ”

Sun Li, who had withdrawn from the battle, returned to Yangxiang from the west gate with more than 460 cavalry in a half-circle around the city, while the other 30 people were turned into cold corpses and carried into the city by war horses.

No matter how powerful the cavalry is, once it initiates a hand-to-hand battle with the enemy, there will always be casualties, let alone 500 cavalry against 2,000 cavalry. Sun Li's ability to control the casualties of soldiers at about 10% is already very rare. These cavalry were cultivated as seeds, and there were too many casualties, which would go against Liu He's determination and intentions.

After Sun Li returned, Li Yan carefully inquired about the process of going out of the city, and then ordered him and the cavalry to immediately unload their armor and rest, and tomorrow's battle to defend the city did not need to go to the city to fight hand-to-hand, but Sun Li refused.

Sun Li said: "Master Li, you can't be partial! During the day, Commander Murong killed a captain, and at night I finally killed a captain, tomorrow is a critical moment for the two of us, how can he be allowed to act alone! ”

Li Yan had no choice but to agree to let Sun Li go to the city to fight when he defended the city tomorrow.

In the early morning of the next day, Gongsun Yue let the army eat early, and then ordered all the troops to go out at the same time, besiege the small Yangxiang City on all sides, and then beat the drums himself and ordered the troops to launch a siege battle at the same time.

In the face of the fierce enemy army, Li Yan no longer hid his strength, and quickly mobilized 2,000 soldiers to climb the four city walls and make various preparations for strict defense. Yangxiang City is too small, and each city wall can stand up to 500 soldiers, and any more is a waste, but it is easy to become a target for the enemy army under the city.

In order to ensure the effectiveness of defending the city, Li Yan mixed and matched 500 sword and shield men, 500 axe soldiers, 500 halberd soldiers and 500 archers, ensuring that each wall had long-range attack and melee soldiers, as well as euphorbia soldiers who could destroy the ladder.

After the three-way drum sounded, the enemy army let out an overwhelming shout of killing, and poured like a tide towards the city.

Sun Li stood on the eastern city wall and shouted to boost morale: "Brothers, don't panic!" Don't look at the large number of enemy troops under the city, the head of the city is so wide, they can't come up in a heap, and those who come up are sending us heads! ”

Murong Ping, who was guarding the south gate, shouted to the soldiers: "Brothers, hold your bows and wait for the enemy to approach before shooting!" Remember the archery tips I taught you in the camp, be sure to breathe evenly, don't care about the movements of the others around you, just aim the arrows at the face and chest of the enemy soldiers, and shoot a pot of arrows steadily! ”

Li Yan, who was guarding the west gate, opened his mouth very strongly, and only heard him say: "Brothers, everyone must have been suffocated in the training camp for the past two months, right?" Today is the time to test the results of your training! Think of all kinds of rich rewards, as long as you fight bravely and kill the enemy desperately, you don't have to wait until the end of the year, you can get a bounty, be promoted to a military position, get a land assignment, and get excellent equipment! ”

There were no important generals on the north gate to boost the morale of the soldiers, but there were people who were doing pre-war mobilization. I saw that the Sima of the Beimen Army, who had been Liu He's boss in Macheng, was standing in the command position with a spear in his hand at this time, shouting at the top of his voice: "Brothers, the eldest prince has personally been trained as a soldier in our camp, if he doesn't fight bravely to kill the enemy today, what face will he have to see the prince again in the future?" ”

Being good at mobilizing for battle, this is a standard set by Liu He for all the officers from top to bottom who participated in the training, and now it seems that it has been effective, and everyone has used all kinds of means to boost the fighting spirit of the soldiers under his command before engaging the enemy, stimulate the soldiers' desire to win, and regard the mobilization for battle as an important link.

The attacking soldiers under the city were divided into three groups, one of which held bows and crossbows to shoot at the defenders at the head of the city, the other group rode back and forth, throwing bags of sand and dirt bags into the city, and the last group guarded the makeshift ladder to the city, ready to attack the city at any time.

The defenders of the city were temporarily suppressed by the rain of arrows and could not raise their heads, so they could only hide behind the female wall and shield and wait for hand-to-hand combat with the enemy soldiers who were attached to the ant-attached siege city.

Gradually, the dirt pockets were piled up, and seeing that they were about to be level with the wall, Gongsun Yue immediately ordered the soldiers who were attacking the city to attack the city.

An inevitable brutal hand-to-hand fight finally begins......

In a dense forest on the shore of Taoshui in the west of Yangxiang City, Zhao Yun has led the army to secretly ambush here for two days, waiting for this time when Gongsun Yue and Zou Dan led the army to attack the city. When he heard the news that the enemy had begun to attack the city with the help of the rangers in charge of reconnaissance, he immediately led his 4,000 cavalry to gallop eastward.

In order to ensure that Gongsun Yue and Zou Dan were stopped east of Taoshui this time, Li Yan led an army of 6,000 to guard the city, while Zhao Yun hid outside the city and waited for an opportunity to destroy the enemy, constituting a "double insurance". At the beginning, some people suggested that Zhao Yun attack Gongsun Yue's camp at night, but Zhao Yun denied it. He felt that although there would be gains in attacking the camp at night, Gongsun Yue and Zou Dan were not straw bales, and they would definitely tie the camp very tightly, and they would not let the cavalry rush in, as long as the other party hid in the camp and did not come out, attacking the camp at night would not only easily expose their own strength, but also add unnecessary casualties.

After all, there are only 1,000 elites among the 4,000 cavalry under Zhao Yun's command, and the training level of the remaining 3,000 is not high.

A six-mile journey is only a cup of tea for a cavalry on the run.

Soon after the fierce siege began, Zhao Yun led the reinforcements to rush to the west gate of Yangxiang City like a divine soldier! In an instant, the troops besieging the city outside the West Gate were in chaos!

Not to mention that the soldiers who dismounted and fought on foot were now all facing away from the city, that is, the first group of cavalry responsible for firing arrows at the city, at this time, they had exhausted their arrows, and when facing the four thousand cavalry led by Zhao Yun, they could only hold their heads and run away.

Soon, the more than 2,000 enemy troops attacking the west gate were completely defeated, and Zhao Yun led his troops to kill the fleeing enemy soldiers to the south gate. Seeing that the tide of battle had turned, Li Yan immediately ordered the 4,000 troops in the city, who had never appeared, to rush out of the west gate, move in the opposite direction with Zhao Yun's troops, and go around to the north gate to attack the attacking enemy troops there. Li Yan himself led the defenders of the city to rush out of the west gate and capture the prisoners of war who had not yet had time to flee for their lives.

Zou Dan, who personally commanded the soldiers to fight on the south gate, suddenly saw hundreds of cavalry rushing over in a panic, and was about to rush forward to stop it, but saw a general with black armor leading the army to kill!

Zou Dan then led hundreds of cavalry to meet Zhao Yun, but was provoked by Zhao Yun with a shot and thrown under the horse's hooves......

As soon as Zou Dan died, the enemy troops on the south gate were completely chaotic, and they were like frightened sheep, desperately fleeing along the city wall in the direction of the east gate.

Murong Ping, who was guarding the south gate, saw Zhao Yun appear, and immediately led the infantry at the head of the city to rush down the city and began to hunt prisoners of war and war horses outside the south gate.

The enemy troops on the north gate were suddenly hit by the abdomen and back, and they suddenly lost their fighting spirit, and they all chose to flee to the east, because the west is a large force of enemy troops, the north is the direction of Jicheng, the south is the city gate, and only the east is the place where Gongsun Yue camped yesterday!

The east gate, which suffered the most fierce attack, at this time the soldiers defending the city had already suffered forty percent casualties, if it were not for Sun Li's brave battle and taking the lead, I am afraid that the city head has been lost at this time. Sun Li held two big axes, chopping melons and chopping vegetables, smashing the heads of the besieging enemy soldiers who came out of the city, and at this time, his body and face were splashed with red blood and white brains, looking very terrifying.

Suddenly, Sun Li saw the enemy troops at the south gate rushing towards the east gate like a tide, and he chuckled in his heart, thinking that the enemy had changed his siege strategy and wanted to focus on attacking in one direction.

Without waiting for Sun Li to come back to his senses, the cavalry team led by Zhao Yun came around and followed closely behind the fleeing enemy army to fight and kill!

Gongsun Yue, who was beating drums, suddenly saw the troops attacking the south gate rushing to the east, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered: "The whole army quickly retreats to the camp!" ”

Before Gongsun Yue's order came out, the troops on the north gate also circled as if they had lost their souls, and a large army of chasing and killing also appeared behind them.

In a panic, Gongsun Yue jumped down from the drum rack, snatched the reins from the guards, and fled for his life in the direction of Anji without looking back. As he fled, he shouted: "The enemy army has an ambush, everyone quickly retreat with me to Anci City!" ”

PS: Today is the first day of the first lunar month, the first day of the Year of the Horse, Nandao wishes the book friends galloping alone and welcoming the New Year happily!